Jasmina Topić | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

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• Biography
• The Project
• Organized by

• Jasmina Topić

  Jasmin Topić was born on the 4th of August 1977. in Pančevo, former Yugloslavia. She graduated Faculty of Philology in the University of Belgrade thus becoming the professor of Serbian language and literature. She is a poet and a literary critic who occasionally publishes prose works and essays in magazines. Her first book of poems was published  in 1997. and has had four more published since. In addition to this, she has been working for eight years as a journalist for weekly magazine Pančevac and is currently working as a freelance journalist for the Slovenian daily magazine Dnevnik. She collaborated in the column Knjiga/Book of the daily magazine Danas/Today, as well as with Slovenian publishing house Študentska založba by writing columns for their internet site Airbeletrina (2008.2009.) She participated in the majority of the most important regional festivals, and recently became a participant of the Word Express project (within the Literature Across Frontiers, UK). She likes to observe the transformation of literature in the field of multimedia, so she participated in performances, solo projects, a few theatrical, photo and literary workshops (Plavo pozorište, Centar za stvaralaštvo mladih, etc.). She published a multimedia DVD entitled Tiha obnova leta/Quiet renewal of flight in Serbian and English that consistsof 10 poetic videos. Since 1998. she is the editor of  Rukopisi/Handwritings – almanac of poetry and short prose works of young authors from ex-Yugoslav territories and is the co-editor of literary magazine Kvartal. Regularly publishes in periodicals. In 2008. she won the Milo Dor grant of the Austrian KulturKontakt and has spent two months in Vienna as artists in residence.

• P(r)oigravanje prostorima / Kosmos mora - Playing with spaces/Cosmos of the sea

  10.07.-15.08.2012.

  This programme is connected with symbolic/archetypal fascination with the sea and mediterranean creators, bit it is also based on a certain play with identity by transfering it from its natural habitat, the way by which we perceive our own existence – in life and during the creative process. Interaction with others can result in a reverse process on designated topic, and as such create a network of different intimate accounts about the perception of existence on the sea/other spaces. Programme includes segments of self-reflection, interaction with other artists, local population as well as separate literary and multimedia segment that will create a  fragment of our intimate fascinations – in correlation with the designated topic. During her stay in Rijeka, she planned two literary evenings. The first one is planned shortly upon her arrival and is conceived as a overview of her literary oeuvre –  four books of poems: Suncokreti. Skica za dan, Pansion.Metamorfoze, Romantizam and Tiha obnova leta and her recent book  Dok neko šapuće naša imena/While someone whispers our names. In addition to her books she will present other segments of her work – essays, columns, etc. and  engage the audience with contemporary literary  topics. The second evening is planned for the end of her stay and then she (and the audience) will read poems and stories that will be written during her visit . These new works will be printed and distributed to the audience, engaging it to become active participant in the event.

• Serbian Cultural Association Prosvjeta - Subcommittee Rijeka

  → www.skdprosvjeta.com/

  Serbian Cultural Association Prosvjeta – Subcommittee Rijeka has been founded in 1994. Its main mission is to nourish national, cultural and religious identity among Croatian citizens – by implemeting various activities – publishing projects, exhibition projects, etc. In addition to its efforts to preserve traditional values, the Subcommittee tries to be an active participant in cultural indentity of Rijeka and of Croatia. Through its activities it organizes various acitivities, such as: Bijela pčela/The White Bee magazine  that is the only children's magazine in Croatia in Serbian language – in Latin and Cyrillic alphabet. It's mixed eductional, informative and entertaining content is aimed at the development of tolerance, peace and respectful co-existence of different cultural traditions; Artefakti/Artefacts, an expert magazine for the history of the Serbs in Croatia, primarily in Primorsko-goranska County and in Rijeka since the 18th century and the Dositej  Library that opened in 2004.g. and it contains approximately 10 000 books (Serbian literature – classical and modern, philosophy, theology, and modern historiography) Library is accompanied by contemporary Serbian literary production - SKD Prosvjeta editions.